OUIGO TGV DUPLEX REVIEW / 580KM ACROSS FRANCE FOR JUST €19! / FRENCH TRAIN TRIP REPORT
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2020
- Hello and welcome to another high-speed trip report!
Today we will be riding across France with SNCF's low-cost carrier Ouigo! Our journey is from Paris Gare de Lyon to Avignon TGV in the South of France. A total distance of 580km which we cover in just 2 hours & 40 minutes, impressive!
This may not be an experience that everyone would enjoy, but it's great that high-speed train travel can be brought to the masses at an affordable price. Enjoy the ride!
Date of Filming: 14/7/20
Camera: GoPro Hero 7 Black
Operator: Ouigo
Departure: Paris Gare de Lyon, France
Arrival: Avignon TGV, France
Cost: €19 (single class, advanced fare)
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That's a steal! This service will be beneficial to budget travellers and of course the locals too. And Great video. 😊✌️✌️
Thanks a lot! 👍🏻
@@NonstopEurotrip Merry Christmas 🎅🎄☃️
4:10 I love this colour scheme! It is vivid, and the azure colour reminds me of the Mediterranean Sea, where this train often goes and where I have gone for summer vacation from Switzerland by TGV three times already.
Completely agree 👍🏻
Being able to ride a high-speed train for cheap is simply amazing. I’m living in Japan at the moment, and I don’t think you can even get on the high-speed trains here with just €19 haha. (A comparable trip can cost something like $130 or so, and there are very few discounts or promotions)
Wow that's expensive! I'd love to try shinkansen soon though 😊🚅
Jr east has obligation to maintain a country wide train system and jr center is investing in maglev. It also doesn't help that in France they have high quality volcanic stone as track ballast for lgv, while Japanese Shinkansen built mostly on high elevated concrete bridge.
Great vid. Love the way ya show speed🇮🇪🇮🇪
Thank you 😊🤗
19 EUR is a very good deal for high speed rail travel! Nice insights and footage for what these Ouigo trains are like on the inside.
Thank you very much!
La France pays de la grande vitesse ferroviaire !!! Et oui...
Happy Christmas! I last went on a TGV from Paris to Avignon about 8 or 9 years ago, one New Year's Day. I wasn't very well, and slept the whole journey, which was after dark - my husband commented that we could have been anywhere, hurtling through the dark at 186 mph!
Same to you! It's not exactly the most scenic trip, still nice to travel that fast 😃
Thank you!!! This is awesome. Although, I do feel apprehensive about putting my bag at the end of the coach out of my sight, I will anticipate a peaceful journey from Paris to Nice.
You're welcome! I've never had a problem with any bags on trains, so I wouldn't worry too much tbh 😊
@@NonstopEurotrip Update...I sat right in front of the luggage rack on the train. Lol. It was a very nice ride. Next stop...Milano! 😊
Great video !!
Glad you enjoyed it 😃
Thank you for sharing, so detailed, informative and just a reminder of how Europe is decades ahead with its public transport system than the US. Can't wait to travel again, especially internationally and now know of a great option when in France and soon in Spain.
Not until the energy costs are covered - and those costs are steep. (In the early days of SNCF, France did it with the largest nuclear energy backbone in all of Europe; since then, said backbone has been decimated - what will it be replaced with? Renewables alone can not do it - and the Greens will not let anybody rebuild that backbone of nuclear power; not even Germany - let alone France.) Do you want that big bill? (I do not hate renewables; I do not hate nuclear energy, either - and both have a place.) And that is just energy. North America has it no easier; that I admit. Still, the same issues would have to be faced in North America (as in the US).
Rail will never die in Europe 😊👌🏻
@@NonstopEurotrip I am afraid it has a very good chance of dying in Europe; the costs will kill it. Look at how much the French government is looking at merely in terms of subsidies for SNCF; they OWN that. (SNCF is the national rail carrier.) The other nationally-owned carriers are facing identical costs - and that is just subsidies - I have not factored in energy costs yet - those are not cheap, either. Similar costs are whacking the private rail carriers (a large number of which were spun-out former national-flag rail carriers similar to SNCF - they got spun out due entirely to those costs - now you re asking that the same governments take them back. The citizenry won't do it; they are going to look at those costs and scream "H*CK NO!") Read the local papers in Europe.
@@PGHammer21A Agreed, except one thing, which is vice versa: you must say "not even France, let alone Germany." Because France has pushed and used nuclear power to a much higher degree than Germany, and in no country the Greens have so much influence than in the German speaking counties, especially Germany (unfortunately). In general things are often handle in a too stiff and ideologic manner in Germany (Germans say "at 300 percent").
Great video, as always! Ouigo duplex is one of the trains that I have had in my wishlist for a long time, unfortunately I didn't catch it this year. The only thing I don't like about the Ouigo is the impossibility of choosing the seat. They should do it like Ryanair, many people would pay extra for a seat reservations. I can't imagine sitting in the middle of a 3-seater :-D Greetings from Prague :-)
Thanks Pete, Happy Christmas ☃️ I agree being able to choose a seat would be much better. I just got lucky that I was top deck and no one next to me 🤣
Hey hi, I saw you also have a chain of trip reports. I'll go check it out right away. Happy New Year 2021 and - I know - Merry Christmas two days late ... See you soon in your channel! Thank you ! See you later !
Nice video the tgv ouigo
I have read about OUIGO services online but this is the first time i've seen them for real albeit on UA-cam and in my opinion is a lot better service and value for money than i thought it was. Thank You Nonstop Eurotrip for giving me a real life insight into what these trains are like despite having to BYO food and drink.
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed the video! 👍🏻
What do you expect for EUR 19? !A 5 stars menu?🤡🤡
In advance it can be very cheap.
Next may Ouigo starts operation in Spain, in Barcelona - Madrid HSL.
They are refurbising and transfering 10 Euroduplex 8xx to Spain for the services (5 round trips per day; 2 direct, 3 stopping at Tarragona and Zaragoza). But in Spain the trains will mantain 1st class, bar and will be staff on the train.
I can't wait to try it!
Thank you, nonstop eurotrip! Oh dear, this is my favorite video from your channel. So precisely for this summer, I took the Ouigo de Marseille Saint-Charles twice, I live in Marseille, to Marne-la-Vallée Chessy Disneyland, because I love Disneyland. This journey represents happiness for me. And I took the Ouigo with the t-shirt I bought from Dylan's store! Then that happiness at Disneyland. I have the annual passport. Afterwards, in September and October, I took other trains for other less "happy" destinations. What a pity that you did not travel from Paris Gare de Lyon to Marseille-Saint-Charles. Not only is it my station, but in addition the Ouigo goes at 320 km / h from Avignon TGV to Aix-en-Provence TGV. I know Paris Gare de Lyon station by heart, of course. Sometimes, when the train is full for Disneyland or when I want to go to Paris, the most beautiful city in the world, I take Paris Gare de Lyon as my destination. I took everything: the Inoui, the Ouigo and all the leftover trains. I traveled a lot less this year than the previous ones, because of the coronavirus. I had to cancel two trips to Disneyland. What a disaster ! I know the journey from Marseille-Saint-Charles to Paris Gare de Lyon or Marne-la-Vallée TGV by heart !!! I take it an average of 20 times a year. It's my favorite train. I know the route by heart. I have everything in mind: the kilometer points, the remarkable places on the line at the exact kilometer points, the stations of the entire line. I can't wait for Disneyland to open, it's too hard to wait there !!! But of course, health first and foremost, and that's normal, of course. Otherwise, I love the 2 TGVs on the 2 floors. Do not worry above all, if it is not in Paris that you walk a lot on the platform, it will be at the final destination, or vice versa !!! I know this well. I have often been seated in the first car of the first train. Ditto for the Inoui or others. I hope that in 2021, I will be able to resume 20 times a year (10 round trips by train), which means that I am going to Disneyland and / or Paris and / or the surrounding area. (particularly university). For 19 euros, you did not pay the cheapest, if you book in advance, it's 10 euros + 5 euros for luggage (obliged to take the option since I buy a lot of things, that I stay a lot of days, that I go there for the university, and that I buy lots of books). We travel well by TGV. A big thank you to you !!!
Ah, I forgot to wish you a happy new year 2021, a merry Christmas - I know - a little late ... Take the RER A to go from Disneyland to Paris and / or from Paris to Disneyland, hehe. Health before all !
Thanks Louis! Glad you liked it, I love Disneyland too but only been twice, last time I went on the Eurostar direct from London. Happy new year to you too 😃
Oh, thank you very much!
Great video on the OUIGO brand of the TGV services may not be as good as the normal services but I can be good if you are on a budget but don't want to spend hours on a slower regional train or intercity coach I think I will definitely use this service in the future also I like the train colours and France has a very well connected high speed rail network also hope 2021 will be a better year for travel
A bloody hope 2021 will be a better year too! Ouigo is a great place to start for cheap highspeed train action!
@@NonstopEurotrip that's true and also I heard there's an OUIGO staring in Spain soon don't know the exact date but I suggest sometime before the mid 2020s
@@NonstopEurotrip Yh I think the first few months of 2021 won't be much different to 2020 but I still have hope
It's really a beautiful train
It sure is! 😃
Great 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you! 😄
Cool video! They should inform passengers to fasten there seatbelts. These trains are going kind of flying over the high speed line😜🚄
Haha I know right 😅
Wow nice vlog
Thank you 😊
1:15 you're lucky to have seen one of these blue Paris to Milan trains with the red ring on their nose! They've all been repainted now.
And at 2:39 ... there looks like there are more comfortable seats in the lower deck there ? I thought they were all the same ...
Otherwise, excellent video ! Hope to try Ouigo one day too!😁
I thought the seats were the same too! Glad you enjoyed it! 🎄☺️
Only two (looks like a first class ones) in the wheelchair area. The rest are the normal in 3+1. Look carefully 5-10 seconds earlier
12:10 9.4
5 for not to fail this video
4.4 for the video's length
Thank you! ☺️
I actually like the colour scheme inside and out! Certainly eye catching. 😆 The price is a steal for high speed no-frills service.👌 What's with the welcoming committee before boarding?👮♂️ Security? 🇬🇧
Just a ticket check. And yes, great value! 👌🏻😎
If you are going shorter-distances, OUIGO and equivalents are always an option (it is why I have LONG recommended MARC - Maryland's regional rail service between Union Station in DC and Penn Station in Baltimore - yes; I have used it myself between these same points).
These trains are not designed for short distances! They're mile munchers!
You were lucky to have what looks to be the first service of the day. Having been a regular user of the Paris - Bordeaux service with Ouigo for about a year and a half, the experience was quite different. The pricing kept on growing to the point at which using a Young Traveller's card and the flagship "InOui" service was cheaper. An excuse is that the line to Bordeaux has a ridiculous toll rate for every train kilometre.
Maintenance on the trains of this section has also taken its toll. Toilets fittings and compartment cleaning later in the day is really bad. I'm surprised such a difference exists in quality for another Southbound service just at the opposite longitudinal direction, good on you!
The last thing I am really not happy about is what looks to be a lack of an English-friendly environment. All announcements are French exclusive, and I have seen an instance of a guard trying to speak English over the P.A, that was really worrying, and if I recall correctly the website and apps are in French only. I'm a French speaker so I understand everything but I can't help but feel terrible for our fellow English speakers.
Yeah, the later ones are more expensive 😏
Does british or american staff speak french on domestic routes? Surely not, Please learn french!
@@pzorba7512 They don't have to, because the rest of the world has accepted English as the lingua franca. Sure some might learn Spanish ot Chinese because they're spoken by more people in the world. And for your information, InOui services have English speaking staff on boards and bilingual automatic announcements, even trilingual information screens. No particular excuse.
Does the French speaking railway travellers in the UK or USA get a better treatment? Just in case you would have forgotten it, we are in France. So learn French if it bothers you ghat much 😡😡😡
@@francinesicard464 Thank you for your progressive, constructive, enlightening and useful comment.
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By the way, please explain how this travel thing works, because coming for the UK there seems to be no way out. I was due to be on one of these next month for my trip to disney from Lille flandres, but got cancelled because its not emergency travel, and also if you do need to travel its over £100 to get the specific test that lets you out of the country providing you test negative 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
How do you and others manage to travel, is it because your not coming from the uk?
These were all filmed last year when travel was permitted 😊🚈
@@NonstopEurotrip my mistake 🤦🏽♂️
Was 19€ for a return ticket??? or how much for return???
The price depends on when you travel. €19 was just one way
First you show a restaurant named "le train bleu", then you board an actual blue train. Coincidence?
The train is much cheaper than the restaurant 😂
"Le Train Bleu" is named after the old Paris-Nice (and beyond) sleeper train, run by CIWL, who operated the Orient Express back in the day.
Very good video, but you made a light mistake: Paris to Avignon is 657 km via high speed line. Thanks a lot
Whoops 🤔😂
9:52 Are you sure about the RENFE Lyon to Barcelona service? Based on time and location I‘d bet this is the RENFE Marseille to Madrid (maybe shortened to Barcelona) service.
Otherwise, great video!
You could be right 😏
When will all stop bkoz of virus
It has, for the most part. International train traffic in Europe - both nationalized and private - has taken it in the neck. (While I live in the US, I watch videos like this because the same companies that build in Europe - such as Alstom and Siemens - supply the US market as well. (The TGV/AGV in Europe is the Avelia Liberty in the US and Avelia Pendolino in Italy and South America - such as Brazil. Local content laws are the only differences.)
Hopefully we can get back to travelling more freely in the next few months 😃
@@NonstopEurotrip The problems that are faced merely START with the pandemic. One biggie (that the pandemic brought out) are the energy costs of train travel - ALL train travel. It is impossible (not merely improbable) to rely on renewables to meet that cost. (Even in North America - with a smaller passenger rail network - renewables can not do it.) Nuclear is a must - period. And even without nuclear, you still have to have natural gas or other burnables in there as fill-ins. (Do I hate train travel? No. Do I hate renewables? Also no. The cost must be paid - and renewables don't even begin to cover those costs - anywhere.)
9:20 you don’t get a funky jingle like that on Ryanair!
Or the clapping on arrival 😅
That's like from Los Angeles to San Fran, in less than 3 hrs and without having to go through the mothertucking TSA, all for under $25. California has been trying to build this sh*t since Jesus was in pampers and still nothing. I don't mind paying for the regular TGV to be honest, French train personnel is always helpful and kind. That's my experience anyway. Want to hear a joke: ...AMTRAK! 🤣
Amazing eh 🙂
€1 = 1000$
🤷🏻♂️
"Decimated" air travel ? Remember that Air France (as a condition of Euros 7 billion of state aid) agreed not to compete with the TGV on the shorter journeys. But this ruling does *not* apply to AF's flights which serve CDG and which act as feeders for AF's international services. For example there are even flights from LYS to CDG even though SNCF operates direct TGVs linking the city with CDG !
To combat pollution from CO2 emission, the French government has decided to ban all domestic flights of less than 2.5 hours (basically all of them) when the a TGV alternative is available. I guess "decimated" is more like "dead and buried" now.
19 EUR c'est bien
Trés bien! 🤩
nothing to compare with disastrous british railways !
They might not be fast, but they're very frequent compared to a lot of Europe
A cheap trip !!!
Great value isn't it!